This does not bode well for future me lmao
Meh at least I made the right choice going for lifetime XD
Wow people are so diligent! Sill I’m glad I’m not the only one who take breaks.
Going at my own pace when I’m feeling like it.
Bought the lifetime membership during a sale in 2017… Let’s just say I haven’t kept up with my studies as much as I should in that time despite literally living in Japan.
What can I say. I’m still here and I do my reviews every day (apart from being on holiday). I just had to get my apprentice under control and this has been the only way
perhaps it serves as encouragement to other slowcoaches
Not the person you asked either, but I raced through WK in my first year of learning Japanese and can assure you that level 60 on Wanikani means little in isolation. Doing WK will of course help, but it’s not going to make you good at Japanese by itself. It takes a long time practicing reading and studying non-WK vocab to get better at it.
I’m now three years into studying Japanese and I would say that I can read a relatively easy Japanese story without too much trouble, but that’s because I’ve spent a lot of time studying, and I still struggle with it.
In honor of finally hitting level 48 after 163 days, here’s my updated level up chart.
Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.
Doing the level a week approach. It’s working for me, but getting challenging enough I can’t do Bunpro in parallel like I could at the lower levels, so I’ll pick that back up when I hit 60 (hopefully this summer).
(Edit: That was supposed to be a general reply to the thread, not to capsaicin_boi’s post in particular. Sorry about that.)
I started 5 years ago, jumped in during the annual lifetime sale the winter that I was applying for JET. So my first few levels went pretty quick, but eventually I got bogged down with prepping to move here. Level 15 took over a year because I completely abandoned WK to just try to figure out how to survive here.
Then the pandemic hit during my 2nd year of JET, all the schools closed down, and I powered through levels 16-20 in my office because I had literally nothing to do anyway. Slowed down a bit when school got restarted and I go back and forth between being very dedicated and slacking off. Had kinda hoped to finish level 60 before I finished my 5th year of JET, but I doubt I can pull off 20 levels in 8 months while also job seraching and trying to figure out next steps haha
I definitely feel like I am on the slower side of things. I feel like I am not making the progress that I should be, given the amount of time I spend on this daily. I work on this for several hours each day to prevent my reviews from piling up, but I find after I have gotten all the reviews completed, my brain is fried, and I rarely add new words to the pile because I don’t feel like I have a grasp on the ones I already have. Adding to the pile seems crazy.
Everybody goes at their own rhythm but I have to admit that taking 3 months to level up if you spend “several hours each day” doesn’t really compute for me.
How many reviews do you do daily on average? And what’s your rough error rate?
Eighteen day levels are going great. Ten lessons a day doesn’t take long, so I have plenty of time to focus on other aspects of language learning. At this rate* I’m due to hit level 60 in summer 2025, about three years after I started.
*I may slow down again around level 40-50 though
sometimes you might just have to keep adding to the vocabulary even if you feel like you don’t know the ones you already studied. You’ll come across words that you may have forgotten when you interact with native content. If you want to move forward with the learning process you have to be okay with forgetting stuff.
To add to @PiSilky I think if you add 5 a day you will move along at a steady but slow pace. I find that when people below 10 are overwhelmed it’s usually~ because they do every lesson the can immediately instead of doing a steady amount daily. This leads to days with 200 and days with 0.
But I can be sure whats going on with you.
Been going as fast as the app will let me trying to finish by Christmas. Not sure how people go faster. Plugins? I really love the grind. Gonna miss it when I’m done 
It’s been a long journey, but after nearly 600 days I finally hit level 60! Definitely slowed down significantly after my trip to Japan at level 47, but finally managed to push through 
